Pedrógão Grande municipality has become the latest local authority to reject plans for a ‘solar power plant’ – in this case, a floating structure, on the Cabril reservoir. Reasons are multiple, but have a lot to do with aesthetics and the fact that construction implies power lines that will have to run through the area, over villages, “affecting the quality of life of those people and the environment’, and hampering access to water in the summer by fire-fighting aircraft. Says the municipality – echoing complaints by so many others before it: “Decarbonisation is an important process” but it cannot override local needs and requirements. In short, the floating solar plant “does not represent added value for the district”; it represents quite the opposite.
Town council explains ‘thumbs down’ to floating solar power plant on Cabril reservoir
Cabril reservoir is one of the largest in Portugal, and used for tourism, leisure etc. A solar power plant with all the power lines this would imply would change the environment radically
